Chips Ahoy cookies, Ben & Jerry's ice cream being recalled

Wednesday

The first recall involves 13-ounce packages of Chewy Chips Ahoy! cookies that reportedly have an "unexpected solidifying ingredient," according to CNN.

What exactly does that mean? In an email to CNN, a spokesman for Mondelez Global LLC, the company that owns the Chips Ahoy brand, elaborated: "In some instances, the cornstarch in our Chewy Chips Ahoy! recipe did not fully incorporate in the mixing procedure and solidified in the baking process."

The packages of Chewy Chips Ahoy! being recalled have expiration dates of Sept. 7, Sept. 8, Sept. 14 and Sept. 15. Packages with other expiration dates are not affected.

A "small number" of people have reported gagging, choking or dental injuries after eating the cookies being recalled.

In a separate recall, TV station WFLA reports that two flavors of Ben & Jerry's ice cream are being pulled from freezers because of an undeclared ingredient: nuts.